Arielle Ford Quotes

Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.

Arielle Ford

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• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Want
  • Earth

• Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Trying
  • Single
  • Day

• When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Music
  • Important
  • News

• How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • House
  • Man

• The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Food

• I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Never
  • Judge

• People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Obstacles

• I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Mind
  • True
  • Body

• I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Say
  • Many
  • Nickname

• There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Fall

• My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Help

• There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Wisdom

• I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Perception
  • Possible
  • Senses

• Quick, how do you pick up a cat?" "Buy her a drink.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Cat
  • Drink
  • Picks

• It is not, however, the unfamiliarity or strangeness of a work or of a composer's manner that is a bar to understanding, but rather the disappearance of the familiar, the ongoing disappointment of the expectations and hopes fostered by the musical tradition in which we have grown up.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Understanding

• The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Character
  • Responsibility
  • Perfection

• I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Enough
  • Disappointment
  • Heartache

• Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.

  

  Arielle Ford
  • Perfection
  • Disappointment
  • Seeking